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My guest is a fan of this brand and that's always good because I
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Which why is that happening in 2022?
But I did it to be fair down offered to do it.
But here's the thing. I like to have a separate spoon
because I have almond milk, because if my milk mixes with if
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And I didn't trust down to use a separate spoon.
And I think you would have told me that you did, but I don't
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So this guest was like, look, I'm a big fan of that particular
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Sure. They could have like paste, like
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Why? That's their business.
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My guest today is a returning guest but has not been done to
the studio. One of our one of the only
guests and we had an in what I call the in between studio where
we were put were for a while we were in a listed building that
and the windows were painted closed.
But now we have plentiful air, which is great because my guests
over there just breathing in and out.
Take a lot of space now, in all fairness.
Don't say that about yourself. It's good to have that room.
My guest is brother of Alicia Connor.
Case has that bad. Thing about that, right?
You see, I'm of the age I'm. I'm the eldest of four boys,
right? Yeah.
And my second youngest brother, that song came out Alicia Keys
first song. Whatever the big No one.
Three hits. No one was played everywhere,
right. But Internet wasn't a big thing.
Yeah. So nobody really got to see her.
My brother had told his entire school year that that was our
cousin. It sounds like you're from Oma.
Alicia Keys from the town. From the town until there was 1
glaringly obvious. What's that?
She could play piano. None of the key, ironically, can
play piano. Not a piano player amongst.
Just not a fucking note. So yeah, I like that because
that is a playground. Rumours work.
I remember a guy joined our school and then wanted to
impress everyone. The obviously had just been
built obviously arena and he told everyone his dad owned it
as if like just one man owned it.
And he said he said this is we were of like first year in
school 11/12. He goes, sure, Britney Spears is
coming and she's standing in our house and people wanted to beat
him up for it. But then also there was the
thing of he might be right here, maybe right.
So he was the most popular guy for many months.
Have Is there anyone famous in your family?
Apart from me, the laugh with that Tash is more sinister than
normal. It's just.
I look like a mediaeval French pervert.
No, I don't know. Nobody famous?
No. Not our family, no.
Like even going back like do you know anything about your?
Answer My biological father would.
His family would all be very creative.
They're all musical. And my great grandfather was a
poet. Oh yeah.
Stuff. Yeah.
You read any? Read any of his stuff.
Yeah, I set up a website, actually, Tyrone among the
bushes.com. Tyrone among the bushes.
Yeah, it was a line from one of those poems.
So yeah, go check that out. Go and see.
That's it. But yeah, so there's creativity
along there, and music was a big part of their thing as well, but
it was weird because I wasn't really part of the family.
Because you couldn't play the piano.
Because the complete. Piano.
So yeah, it was a weird, weird thing that I ended up having
that sort of background or. But you're musical now.
Yeah, we're going to talk about that.
But what presently what we have to talk about is offer you a cup
of tea as you come here as my guest, as my friend.
And you said leave the bag in I'm.
A tea bagger, Yeah. But I But we're talking about
how you take your tea. I thought you were joking.
No, but you're drinking that tea with the with the threat that
you could swallow that tea bag. Unless you do at the end.
That's why I love it. It's basically it's the beverage
version of a danger wink. Yeah, you're never too sure if
you're going to get a load or not.
You're not scared. You're not scared for the bag.
No, I don't. Mind I have a big enough throat
I think it would go down before they touch the sides.
Seriously, bag in. Yeah, I like AI, like a good
strong team. I think there was a period where
I didn't speak to my mum for about two years because once, by
accident, the tea bag was left in the tea.
I was like, I could have died. But you're with the neck, you
see. I don't have a thin neck.
You do have a thin neck, but a fat throat.
Well, that's that's all the mummy even stuffed on your
throat it. Gets what I get paid.
Open your mouth. She and.
You're a big demon. I'm more of a coffee man, yeah.
Many a day. Oh, coffees, well there's about
3 or 4 coffee shops, Noma and that's how many coffees are not
going to day any one of them I walk into they go usual.
Yeah. So.
Because I get a large four shot latte.
So I know I think it balances out the weed.
I think that's something but. Medically.
There's some sort of there's a link in there somewhere.
So I would, yeah, I would have that.
And that sort of stands out to them.
Obviously there's been a drink to go on because everybody was
the same as you go on four shots and they're like, yeah.
So the. Unless you're in Dublin at a
fucking hipster car. I don't like that.
Into a real hipster coffee place.
And I asked the girl behind her for a coffee and can I have an
extra shot in it and she goes no, we don't do that.
And I was like, what do you mean it'll do because our coffee is
an exact recipe. Oh fuck off.
And I said, but I can tell you know what you're going to serve
me is a weak coffee. And she went, no, no, no, it's
our recipe. And it's I was like, well, maybe
this hamster thing, maybe they're right, you know, because
they're so my sister-in-law went also to on the menu.
It was like smashed avocado and toast.
Of course it was. And she was like, can I just get
a tea and some toast? And she was No, we don't do
toast, she said. It's on the menus, yeah, but you
have to have the avocado with us.
Well, also, what were we doing before we were smashing?
I don't. Know what the fuck was wrong?
Where did they come out of? I don't know.
We digging avocados but. Yeah, I don't know how we did it
beforehand would be slice them. So I.
I hate the thing so they gave me sorry, a warm a warm milk,
basically a weak cover. But I, I, I like places to be
able to adopt a bit in terms of like what the offer, Yeah, you
know, because. Sorry, I just remembered one in
Bundoorne, there's a there's a real.
You're not going to have a coffee shop in Bundoorne.
You wouldn't believe it because the surfers on it.
So all the surfers are like, right, And you go into this and
it's a real, there's vinyl plan and there's, you know, all that
sort of shit. And the guy weighs out the
coffee on scales for every single coffee.
And then I'm going and fucking up his whole mantra by going,
can I get four shots, please? And he's like, I, I, I'm going
to take the scales out twice. You get a speed from the guard
he. Takes the scales at every single
and they just cure people and go mate come on.
The fuck? You have to be.
Outside the 500th Cup, you must know what the weight is.
You have to be able to. Freehand it at some point like
Spanish waiters when you order a vog, A vog, a coke, just upside
down. I I was in Chicago and on that
trip found out it wasn't Chicago and I got AI was I was arguing
with people there that it was Chicago.
I was like, oh, great to be in Chicago.
AMC. He was like you keep saying
Chicago, these shows at Chicago and I said it isn't it's
Chicago. I would know.
I've been having the pizzas for you.
One day study. Yeah, I yeah.
So I went. There was a real hipster place
and obviously in America like. Extreme, yeah.
Because coffee culture probably only come here 5510 years.
Like, really? Was relatively new, you know,
especially the whole like there's always like, do you want
milk in that? Yeah, there was.
There was black coffee and I was just, yeah, the Americano and
cappuccino thing was, yeah, definitely about. 10 years, this
place was like, it looked like a lab, right?
Like it literally an Apple store and I walked in and there was a
guy serving me and that I was like, I could have a tea.
And he's like, yeah, no problem, breakfast tea.
But I makes it, puts it down for me and I paid and then I went to
grab it and he went no, no he said not yet.
I said what do you mean? He goes bro it's a 3 minute
brew. And I was like it should be a
three second conversation before I leave.
I'm such a bitch. I just stood there and waited as
he says. I can't take it yet.
Telling a man from Ulster how to take his tea.
I know, but like, fully. I was like, all right, menorahs.
You would know. You would know.
You've been a barista for three weeks.
That is crazy. Yeah, But that whole, that whole
scene of the whole, like the barista thing, they've been Dorn
taken to the extreme. Yeah, as you say, there's common
sense in there. But it was a lovely cup of
coffee. But was it worth the extra?
With no pun intended. What?
If you had to open a tear or a coffee shop anywhere in the
world, where would it be? Probably down the street,
because I wouldn't have anywhere in the world Amsterdam is going
to be. All right, love it anywhere in
the world. Down the street, well, down the
street. If I have to go to work
everyday, I don't want to fucking get a flight.
But yeah, Amsterdam probably just maybe not so much for the
coffee, but just the actual on be honest, yeah.
Do you know you you would go into a coffee shop in Amsterdam
like a wee job coffee shop and like you know, blind facial
expression head the counter. I still definitely walk in like
this. I am laughing.
I'm like even before I've done anything.
No, and I sit with the locals. I go to the places that aren't
in DID. You say you don't go to
Amsterdam, There's somewhere like just outside.
Well, at least, yeah, we would have went to South southern
Holland. There's a kids theme park down
there, so we would have still down and stayed there.
Oh, I thought you were like, by yourself.
Yeah. Just be just fucking half 1/2
hours a week and just went down. To being on the water.
I like a real relaxing experience.
I like to just, you know, smoke a little bit, have an edible and
then get on a fucking loop. The loop.
No, we would, I would hire a carrot and then we would, we
would stay in a hotel in there and then travel about Poland, do
a day trip to Amsterdam rather than going to that sort of.
Thing but with this moustache I look like I'm trying to bust
kids for smoking. Absolutely, yeah.
If you were at a if you were at a concert, you know you'd be in
a polo shirt and a pair of khaki shorts and everybody's going to
go on. He's just missing a sniffer dog.
At an Eagle Eyed Cherry concert, I look like I'm about to make
some arrests. Had a James Morrison kick.
Save tonight by Safe. And then and then they, they
turn on me and just like overbore me very easily.
Yeah, that's where I don't put coffee shop.
I think I'll be the best. Yeah, there's a.
Come here last week or the week before.
Comedy is Do you know how comedy is back?
How you know comedy is back? Because Daly's is back.
We are back. For anyone who doesn't know you,
although if you're in the local comedy you won't, you'll have
heard people talk about it. You run a club in Oma in your
hometown Daly's Comedy Club How do you describe the bar of
Daly's? Is it sly to say I?
Remember Andrew Maxwell came to do a gig in Daly's and he walked
in to the front door and there was 2 old men at the bar
slightly inebriated because it was 8:00 in the evening and I've
been there since half 9:00 in the morning.
And he said to me when he came up the stairs and then seen the
club, but when he walked in, he said like for that instant image
he goes, I questioned my entire career.
Yeah, he thought that's where it was.
That's where it was, he thought. This is I've turned up to like a
pub and I'm going to be. And because we've all done
those, yeah. Absolutely, yeah, have maybe
loads time. So yeah, that's how you describe
it. It's it's very honest women
because it's. Function room above.
Sort of. Yeah, an old traditional bar
right in the centre of time and like.
Oh, it's it hasn't since they've reopened again.
The bar has really kicked off a real resurgence.
Yet, well, normally what would happen like in years gone by,
like you go in, like you say, there's one or two bit, like a
small group, people in the bar after the show, some people
philtre down. But I noticed doing it a couple
of weeks ago when I went in, the bar was packed, Yeah.
And I was like, oh, there must not be starting soon.
But it was just people who were actually.
Yeah, picked up, but. But this that used.
It's a weird thing to happen just in the middle of OMA, in
the middle of, you know. It is it is the IT is probably
the most loved call. It is the most loved comedy club
around because you know, it's a wee bit of a novelty for us.
You know, it's outside of Belfast, great gigs in Belfast
like libraries and pugs and all that, but there's just something
about like a wee trip to Omar it.
Kind of also dispels the myth that any gig in a rural area is
going to be shaped. You know, some people have that
thing actually coming in, like some Maxwell or people coming
in, they're never going to put Omar on their tour date
normally. Yeah, but now they will because
there's a venue there. Because we said to somebody,
it's not necessarily. It's the room.
It doesn't matter who technically owns the place or
runs the the square room low ceiling, it's just a recipe for
pure comedy. If you think of the stands,
they're all the same. They're all that, sort of.
Because I was really nervous to do it and I hadn't felt nerve
like proper nerves like that in a long time because I do hold it
in such high regard. It was the first one back.
It's the first one back to the end of a return.
It was, it was a tough one to be.
Yeah. Thankfully, the good thing and
obviously because you're on yourself, you know it's sold
out. So that fear was gone.
You know, because you're still a small town, so you're wondering
something on the fucking turn up.
Yeah, because because every like every town has tried, I don't
know if I had this conversation before, but every town locally
on village has tried to have stand up.
Yeah, in in the last 10 years. They have a big opening night
and the the pump loads of the bar pumps loads of money into
advertising and promo and it's sold out.
And then they think, all right, well, now that's established.
So the next month, they don't do any promo or any advertising.
No one shows up, and they cancel it.
Yeah, instead of. It's, well, I mean, you talk to
Christy and Terry, Chris Bowies and Terry Keys.
He first started it. I mean, it was a, it was a long
slog before you got it to because first of all.
I did the first one ever. You were the first one.
Ever in the room. Yeah, right.
I mean, because even then back, it took about two or three years
to get the local people used to the notion that, oh, this is a
pub, but I don't come to talk. Yeah, you know, that sort of
thing. What do you mean I can't talk?
This is daily something, you know, this is a comedy club,
this is a show. But now, obviously we're in the
routine now that everybody is. But you've you've almost like
had the like manipulate people's minds to be like, come at this
time. Yeah, don't be late.
Like don't be too. Let's not start too late.
And like these, this will be good if if you know what I mean
like. There had to be a lot of faith.
Yeah, that'll be a lot of and I think it was the earlier because
my first one was a competition. That's right.
My first gig, so it was Darren Matthews and I think Woodsy
might have been on the same one. And you won.
I won, but. Fuck them.
Is that what you said? Fuck all of them, but I
shouldn't have won. Like leave Martin fucking tore
the roof of a place. But like we all know from
competitions, whoever brings the biggest audience.
Well, yeah, so it was my first time trying it.
So because I was involved in the community, still AM, and I know
a lot of people, I I was so nervous about going to do this
first gig to to nobody. I was like, fucking come.
So yeah, yeah, yeah. The place full of friends family
and all the rest and but what happened was it introduced them
to a different type of a night yes and then Christian Terry
will say from that night on but 60% of them stayed and came
every month and became regulars and there's an in for a certain
corner of the bar yes you know all that sort of stuff so.
You see the same face, which is such a nice feeling.
When you go in, you're like, are they kind of they're going to
get it? Kind of, yeah.
And they'll they'll give you that sort of they almost
accommodate you, but because they're just so glad to see
something and people coming, you know, and that.
But now at that stage, what, how many years now, 10 or 12 years
on, it's a case of going, OK, we know what standard is now.
Yeah, you're going to have to. We're not a wee small, you know,
first time small town getting a comedy.
We know the shit. Fucking bring it.
And last two weeks, school was brilliant.
I mean, he's like, it was fucking great.
I I really enjoyed doing sitting on a stool.
You had me. I had to because my leg was
fucked but. I feel about you.
But it was, it was nice. Like sitting on a stool doing it
is nice because I'd had stools at the shows before but never
had the balls to like sit on it. Because I think part of me is
like, if I look too relaxed, that's going to go wrong.
Yeah, you look very comfortable as opposed to relaxed.
I know maybe it's the same fucking thing.
But yeah, I mean, relaxed would mean you're laid back a bit, but
you just looked like I'm, I'm enjoying this and having it.
Yeah. And I knew because you went over
time. Yeah.
Because you thought, oh, I'm
just, I'm just going to do. But when I went over, I was
like, oh, he's having fun. Yeah.
Yeah, yeah. So for us, that's a fucking
that's a great thing to get that back of you.
Like how do you describe Oma as a town?
Like I, I'm, I feel like Hollywood here, like my tone is
a very like defined town like. Like, do you see it here, Dan?
Like Omar, like Omar people for example, like the misconception
about Hollywood obviously is like, oh, it's very part.
A lot of a lot of it is, yeah, but probably half of it isn't.
And actually they're very, it's a quite almost like quite a
liberal place, especially in terms of like politics and like
the full paramilitary is for sure.
But then. But like most people, like the.
Progressive paramilitaries. Yeah, they're nice, you know,
like most, most people. Well here's weird thing about
here, back in the day you would see guys on a night out and go,
yeah, they're paramilitaries, 3 of their mates or whatever would
be Catholic. It's almost like sectarian it,
like there's been sectarian stuff.
Were they were they insurance policy just.
Yeah, I think you think putting a tea bag in a in a cop's
dangerous. Try setting four boys from the
FPF. And then tell me what the storm
of the tea cup is. You think you can't?
But like, I don't, I don't know. I think Hollywood is like
there's a wee bit as well of like not arrogance about the
time, but like my gear from. Here there's money about the
time. There's a wee bit of money about
and. Wee bit of money.
I was walking through it there and like I didn't hear any.
Like I didn't hear anybody trying to sell me the big issue,
you know what I mean? I didn't hear, I didn't hear a
really badly out of tune busker in the corner.
Like it was very calm and serene and we flower shops and we
coffee shops. It looked very fucking, very
fancy. I thought you can smell money.
The big issue is keeping it fancy so you know.
The big issues keeping out the big issue.
The buskers are like, you know, Belfast, you got that guy with
like a violent trumpet mashup kind of thing here you've got
like a peace Blues band. You've got like bluegrass on the
street, you know. But I, I don't know, I think
like Hollywood is quite sort of define like there's a stereotype
about it. But what do people think of
Omar? Because I think of Omar as ultra
friendly, very friendly. But maybe that's an outside.
Yeah, because I mean, if you were to go to Strabane, that's
ultra friendly. Yeah, yeah.
Seriously. You know people saying.
I was there the week before and and even the comedy club, it was
just. Blame walking in the the street
to strangers. People say hello to each other
and you're like, fuck, this is strange.
You don't get to have no more everything head down, just move
on. Oh, really?
Almost full of funny fuckers like proper do you know, like
obviously there's myself and Aaron McCann.
McCartney wouldn't say. He's from all my buddies from
the the hinterland. Carney's from the abyss.
He's just. Yeah, he's.
Carney's from here and there, somewhere in between here and
there. In a roundabout way, but.
Carney's from over Yonder. From days of yore, I.
Boy is McCartney 23 or 57? Who is Mark McCartney?
I said this in our podcast, I accidentally, I went to listen
to McCartney's podcast and put it on 1.8 speed, right?
And sounds like a 72 year old McCartney.
Do you know what? A man gets that old.
He just wants to get the words out as fast again, and it's not
an accident, but because he speaks so slow, normally it just
sounds like a regular conversation.
Yeah, but because of that, I always think there's so many
other boys in that town and girls who could fucking slay
comedy. Yeah, if they ever tried.
It I don't think I'm out here. You see, you know, and I and I,
when I actively try and stop people from doing this, so I'll
be proactive out there and they tell them they're not funny,
like that's a shit joke and then I'll use it on stage.
Yeah, yeah, yeah. But there are loads of loads of
fucking really, really funny fucks, loads of loads of
talented musicians and All Might as well loads of fucking really.
You go into, there's a bar in normal McCann's and that's where
we would, I would go for Pinterestoute.
But the music in there is fucking unbelievable and you
never know who's going to be playing.
And there could be. And like the Lost Brothers and
if you listen to them they're like a sort of a folk band and
1/2 of them is from OMA. So Mark could be on their plane
on a Friday night and you walk and you go, fuck me, I would
have to pay 35 year old Dublin to go and see him.
So it's full of music, but it's not known for us, you know what
I mean? It's like, and I think we don't
sell ourselves very well. I think there's that sort of
fucking vibe about Omoto going, Who the fuck do you think you
are? Right.
What do you? Mean.
Yeah, I think, I think that, yeah.
Yeah, definitely very strong and almost you just keep yourself to
that a bit grounded and go ham doing all right.
What's the reaction as like a stand up from the town and doing
podcasts, doing comedy and that sort of thing?
Like do you get like a positive reaction or is there a bit of
that like you say, like a what are you trying to?
Not really. A lot of the boys I went to
school were like, wait, how come it took so long?
You know, they all thought I would have been anyway at that
time. I was the fucking class clown.
So yeah, I just, yeah, I just took that.
I didn't start until I was 30. So I started and yeah, just
turned 30 in 2011. And yeah, it was just one of
those. I was a bucket list type thing,
you know, just try and do. Trying to do and was it a key?
Because I know when I'm curious with some of comedy, my things,
I'm going to do it once to say I've done it, and then I don't
have to do it again. Well, I had written a play, me
and my mate had written a play part of a community project
thing and it was telling our story of like we grew up in a
sort of probably the worst estate in over and it would be
known as a very Republican estate.
And what's it called? Hunter Crescent.
Hunter Crescent sounds fucking
unbelievable. It's Hunter Crescent.
Sounds like it's out of the arches or something.
Or Emerd. It sounds like a new development
in Emerdale. It's, well, it's like name was
Dodge City. Dodge City.
Yeah, because you were Dodge in punch.
Well, I actually asked the guy why he because somebody from
outside named at that and I said why the fuck do you call it
dodge? And he goes because every man on
here is dodging their neighbour's waves.
And I didn't want to think about it because remand I lived there
and I thought, well, I don't want to think of that scenario,
but I doubt study. So we wrote a play about our
experiences growing up there. And it was the first time.
I don't know if you've ever done this, if if you've written
something to put out on the performance because obviously
you do stand up. You're doing it.
Yeah, but like a sketch or something to get when you write
something. So I was in the wings and the
play was happening with the actors and I could hear the
audience laughing. I was going fuck their laughing
at my words. Yeah.
And that was the first time I thought, oh, maybe it is.
Maybe I could do something funny.
Right, Right. And then the fucking stress of
dealing with a play and 14 people and 14 schedules and
trying to get rehearsals. And I thought, fuck, if I could
just do this myself without all that shit.
Yeah. And so, yeah, I went to daily.
So actually, and it was one of those quiet nights.
It was sort of struggling. I think I was there I.
Didn't want to. I didn't want to say no, but
I've seen a comedian on one night and I thought, fuck me, I
could do better than that. Yeah, right.
And I didn't want to say who it was, but it was Dave.
You were on that night. No, actually, the guy doesn't do
it anymore. But I remember saying.
Well then you can say he is. That's the Morrison.
No, I shouldn't say we. I was sitting in the audience
with my brother and I remember he, this guy was up and he was
telling jokes that were properly 20 years old, playground jokes,
who would have told each other, you know, And I was like, what
the fuck is this? I remember said her brother, I'm
going, I mightn't be the best, but I'm no, I can do better than
that. Yeah, Yeah.
And then I that night I said to Chris, I was like, can you give
me a slot? What is a slot?
He was like 7 minutes. I was like OK, but then the
problem was I wrote 7 minutes. And the second.
Gig they went, can you do 10? I was like, no.
Yeah, yeah. I don't know 10.
Plus people don't allow for like, lot.
You'd be surprised if it goes well about how much time
laughter takes up. Absolutely.
Yeah. And you're rolling with.
You might add something in, you know, on the spot and.
That's yeah, that's what happened.
And that's all went a bit longer, but so that was my first
venture into it. But it was, it was pure fuck,
almost like a spite move. Yeah, I can do better that.
Yeah, yeah, yeah. Everything he does, he's a car
salesman, right? Well, I'm selling cars.
You. No, no, don't.
You start. We're not like, no, we're not
like. Probably lessons.
Yeah, I think I I the one of the stand ups I watched who like got
me into was Paddy Mcgarkey. Paddy's from Ballymena for
anyone who doesn't know party and he was doing and I like 16
in the Empire watching stand up few Tuesdays in a row.
And I was a student and Paddy was on and it was a case of
seeing a local act and going I want to do, but not in a way of
like I could do better than that.
It was I could I I would like to do that, Yeah.
Yeah. You know.
There's a weird thing with comedy is that you don't realise
that you you don't need, especially when you're younger,
you you realise, oh there's, there's no membership form.
Yeah, yeah. There's no club to be joining.
There's no. You just do it.
Yeah. Like I was working when I was
19. I went to London.
I was working in jungler's comedy club.
All right, doing the bar right, right.
Watching all like Phil Nicole and Paul Thomas and Peter Caves
and all these different accidents, 2002 thousand 1 and
in my mind they were the comedians, I was the bar staff,
but there's no way I could ever cross that barrier into doing
that. I was the same until I saw Paddy
and I was like he looks like the he.
He. He could be from my street and
he's from here because the headliner might have been
English or Scottish. But I was like, how did this guy
do? How did he get the beat on?
I know what you mean. Like being.
The fucking nicest guy in comedy.
Yeah, you're like, yeah, you're exactly.
Surely they bring the comedians over here to the left and you're
like, do they let local? People do.
So that's almost like a revelation.
Yeah. And part of me is like, why the
fuck did I not realise that back when I was 19, Yeah, in London
and, you know, where would you be now?
But I was like, I mean, I, I, I started a 30, which meant I had
a whole wealth. Of life to talk.
About talk about, yeah. Did you like London?
Loved it, yeah. How long were you there for?
Just under three years. And were you, what were you
doing? Just work.
Just working on bars. What university went and didn't
finish it? Already got a full time job in a
bar and just partied. What were you studying in
psychology brain. I think it was part of that
brain stuff. It was in there one side to the
other. Like you study psychology.
Like you're trying to read my you're trying to mind read.
No, I'm not a magician. No, I'm psychology.
Because watch this name of food after three any food we haven't.
No, I thought it was right. Go ahead. 123 avocado
cauliflower. There you go.
So I'm. Not going to count neither.
I don't mean fucking shit. Lethal weapon.
I'd still be in the toilet. There's.
Weed I've been parts of maybe all over the bathroom.
Fucking Compton. Go on three.
Does being a big fan of weed delay research?
Yeah, it's fair to say you're. Well, I wouldn't say a fanboy, I
would say I'm more like a like a promoter.
Shareholder, are you on the board of Wave?
I'm on the board of Hemp Incorporated.
But does it like slow your reflexes or anything like every
year? Well, I mean I'm a pretty slow
guy anyway, just physically the main moves fast.
But that the body wouldn't be great, right?
I wouldn't be breaking middle or spraying my ankle as you have.
I broke my leg. You sprained your ankle.
I broke my leg in multiple players, just one player. 2 1/2
weeks recovery. Well, no, that's just because
I'm a medical marvel, actually. I'm going to get X-rays and
we're going to put them in. We are, Yeah.
Because I mean, we know, like, I mean, let's be honest, the next
thing you've held us, you know, you're a champion of like,
fucking. I don't know, You're, you know,
I mean, they'll be fucking. They'll be.
You'll be making up stuff about sprained ankle.
I actually was OK with you. You're back in the day but not
good enough for the user hat. Does that make sense?
Right. I would have had like a glow off
like top yo-yo. Because you had money.
I wasn't good enough. No, not back in the day.
What look at me without time office?
No. You had money?
No, I know. Well, you didn't feel like
anybody with your parents. I don't know.
Not really. Did you?
No. I grew up in fucking.
Calcutta. Where?
Calcutta, right? Back in the day, it was Mother
Teresa that scored me. No, like, no, definitely back in
the day, like I wasn't going to school like.
Yeah, you. Were with paper money.
No, I was. I'm going with 2010 twenty base.
Yeah, yeah, no, like legitimate free school meals.
I could have got free school meals.
I got like tech paid for. But that's because you because
but I mean. And hey, I thought I was going
to tech. Yes, psychology degree make the
dissertation pick a food 321. Yeah.
No, I just always thought you just.
No, I just look like a dude. You look like you do, and then
you meet. We, we Dennis drive.
No, you fucking sports. Fucking Mercedes.
You're going. But let's just say I said people
might freeze that soon, you know what I mean?
Let's just say, let's just say ship and coke, if you know what
I mean. Yeah, yeah.
Well, that's what he does have bad luck about him.
Like, yeah, yeah, yeah, he. Definitely has coke.
Always in the speedos you check his speedos.
And you know, it's a guy that's involved in import export of
coke as opposed to dealing. Yeah, yeah, because.
He's always got a good time. She always in Spain, off the
coast, somewhere down the South Coast waiting for a boat.
Yeah. Yeah, when I read all the stuff
about like the drug wars and Dublin stuff, every Sunday I'm
like turning the pages and Sunday papers being like don't
be bad, don't be bad. But it would be the least
shocking revelation of all times, yeah.
No, I just like, especially as a young guy, I look, I look very
wealthy. It's like, you know, a great
complexion and like I had the entitlement of someone who did.
Right. OK.
But maybe it's the heirs and graces that you wonder about
with. Yeah.
Yeah, I'm just extremely well brought up.
It's. Not money, it's just good
breeding. It's.
Just good breeding. But yeah, no, I'm not on the
board of weed, but I'm a fan, I suppose, in that sense.
Yeah, but but what I'm saying is like, do you ever like, does it,
do you ever like go to think or something and then you just
can't? Yeah, using my wife's name and
stuff. Just things like short term
memories. Not great, right?
You know, long term fine, but short term, you know, you forget
stuff at the shop or whatever. But I kept to be honest, it was
kind of like that before or something, right?
Absent minded. I just I'm going to be days.
You and Mickey's podcast extra on yums.
Yes. Sometimes you state like it's
not full conspiracy theorists podcast, if we can talk about
anything and everything. But when you do deal with like
conspiracy theories, how has it got weirder?
The sort of messages you get and the interaction you get?
Or was it more at the start? At the start we got quite a few
like proper proper not jobs. Were you a torch?
I had to take my phone out because my phone was ringing
there. Can I say it's?
A very old guy thing to have the torch on your phone.
Just I don't know. It happens all in my pocket.
This new iPhone. Yeah, it's a weird one because
we we we have what actually I was three podcasts.
So we have the main one that goes out and then we have a
bonus one of questions. And then there's always been the
Josh rabbit non, which is is now you just become US answering
things. Send them to us.
But it started off with because very serious.
And as time went on, it was like, there are some mental
masters out there, like some crazy stuff, like the summer
stuff I've went through and we haven't even talked about half
the stuff that because it is so mental against some you
literally can't, you couldn't like, yeah, someone went crazy
somewhere. I if you go away from all the,
some of some of them are so out there, they're fucking
brilliant. Right.
You know, and it's not sometimes somebody making a statement
about a conspiracy or whatever is is anybody can do that.
I don't know. I can say such and such as this,
but it's what I love is what's their evidence?
Like what are they using to prove it?
So like one of my favourites, Conspiracy, there's is Stevie
Wonder's not blind, right? So I've heard this.
Right, Shaquille. In Shaq Shaquille O'Neal said
that oh, I live in this important block as I got into
left for them and he pressed the.
Pressed about from. And then there's another video
of him on stage and somebody walks past him and bumps into,
like, a mic stand or assemble sound from a drum kit, and he
catches it. Yeah.
But again, nobody's thinking about vibrations and feeling.
And, you know, he just felt it move and caught it.
But that's the notion now and that people are dead set.
And I was like, why? Can I just say I don't think?
There are some fairly. Because purely because the
basketball player, Shaquille O'Neal was like, I had a button
and left in my head. I go Stevie Wonder.
You're a lion bastard, my friend.
Like why you say? 70 odd years.
So he lied for all these years just to get a left for Shaq.
He's. Been the long game, he's been
the long game and in about a year he's going to now to major
collab with Spec Savers. There are some pocket, I swear
to God, some mental ones. Did you know Obama was Hitler's
grandson? I'd heard.
I'd heard that. That's when I and I can show you
the needs and stuff and the genealogy of it all that.
Yeah, yeah, yeah. But Stevie Wonder?
Yes, I'm blind. I just called to say I see.
You How do you how do you see the buttons?
Your last breath. This was before voice
recognition. He could have just said Siri.
Or shack or shacks Just involved in the Bacon's first theory.
The fucking. Has anyone accused you of like
user like? Government, fucking, well, not
the government thing, but we have been, we've been called
some names over the last year and a half.
It has been fucking brutal. And mainly just because we ask
questions, and if you ask questions and people don't like
the fact that you're asking the question because it might upset
their viewpoint, yeah, they don't be happy about it.
Right. And then it gets the point where
as comedians, we get the wee tangle going, oh, they don't
like that, so let's do more of it.
Because when you're doing stand up live and you're talking about
something, you get a sense straight away whether what the
audience think of it. But if you're doing a podcast,
you've you've no idea. No idea.
No. You know, you're just having a
conversation about something you don't know.
Yeah. We were talking about Get Back
The Beatles film. Yeah, as on Disney.
I was asking if you'd seen it. And we, we both loved it.
What? What is that?
What's the conspiracy about Paul McCartney?
Is it that Paul McCartney died and was replaced by an actor or.
Yeah. So he it's probably one of my
favourites again because I genuinely believe The Beatles
are involved. As in they promoted this?
And they promoted the myth and the conspiracy theory about
that. And McCartney's involved right
up till today. So 6666, apparently there was a
car crash. McCartney's gone and they
brought in Billy shears, right? So.
So a guy called they. No, well, they, they, he's named
himself Billy Shears because of Sergeant Peppers and all the
rest, I think. But, and this is the idea then
that there's loads, there's a, there's a great book on it
actually, and it's called The Memoirs of Billy Shears.
Class and. It came out in 2009, and I'll
fucking swear by a Paul McCartney wrote.
Right, because it's either. First of all, the the the author
has never written anything else, right?
His name's Thomas EU Harriet, right?
Which, if you put into an anagram, twister comes out with
Heather as a tumour, I swear to God.
Right. You know, I'm not smart enough
to know if that's. True.
That's true. 100% true, right? And this was right, by the time
when the divorce song was happening, all but this book.
So the memoirs of Billy Shears. Billy Shears is writing as the
guy who replaced Paul McCartney and The Beatles, right?
And it's so fucking detailed. And so it had to be one of The
Beatles, you know what I mean? I've had to, or else it's true.
But I don't think it's true. Out of all The Beatles, the one
that was always the most noticeable was Paul.
Yeah. There were times when I you'd
look at young George or and John, you go, I don't know which
ones, which Paul you always knew.
So if it's true, Billy Shears is an unbelievable actor.
Unbelievable actor or Billy Shears is Paul McCartney.
I do think McCartney because The Beatles definitely like they
have stated this. Yeah, right.
So there's loads of like head masters who play the record
backwards, like Paul's Dead and all that sort of stuff.
And the Sergeant Pepper's album has got the like the car and the
bloodied glove, glove, driving glove.
And then if you look at the flowers, it says Here lies Paul
All and Sergeant Pepper's album covering all that sort of Crack
the beat, the Abbey Road cover with no Paul's only one of them
wearing no shoes and socks. That is so detailed to the
point. Where it's, I would call it the
first ever viral marketing. Right.
Because it's sold more albums for them yeah, that that to that
faction of people are going they're actually sending
messages out here and they were playing records back and they
were just fucking around with sound and and technology and new
things coming out loops and all those are correct, but if.
You were replacing a famous person like someone was like
Connor, this person is going to die.
We are going to science has moved on that floor.
We're going to change your entire appearance to the point
where you will look and be this person.
But you've got to get rid of your old life and become this
person. Who would you like to be?
Who would you like to replace? It's going to be Jack Black or
Ryan Gosling. I mean, give me, give me.
I would be sort of similar looks to both and I would think that
you're. Right in between both.
There's a sort of, there's a spectrum diagram spectrum there,
yeah. And like I'm I'm in between
there somewhere. Right.
You like, you would like their life, you like that lifestyle.
Lifestyle, OH. Jack Black can have a fun
lifestyle. Jack Seth Rogen has a great
lifestyle because Seth Rogen, OH.
You you wouldn't need to cheat. Yeah, just.
You have the same life. Just wear glasses.
Yeah. He's he's he's making his own
weed at the moment. He's created, he's manufactured,
he's got his own company now that produces weed now, his own
strains that he's made and stuff so.
I would like, it'd be interesting to spend like a day
as like, you know, Kim Jong as like Kim Jong Un or something
like that, like a while, but you wouldn't want to live that life.
I. Don't know, Kim's all right.
I don't pitch. Marsh seems like he would have.
He would know the crack. Quite a good life.
Hammond Demick would have had some fucking nights idly.
Oh yeah. She.
The ground, the ground force, Is that what they would?
Do. Well, gardeners world, what was
it? How does your garden grow?
Huh. No.
It's very personal, manscape.com it doesn't I'll touch more.
Seemed like see some people like him and Chris Packham and stuff.
They get to do their passion but they're just being filmed for it
and earn like millions of points.
Yeah, and that's the dream. Like touch more, just touch more
to be in an allotment either way.
Exactly and. What if he fucking hates Garden
and he's like oh fuck guy? It's like Joe Mahan does fucking
lesser spotted Ulster. Yeah, Joe Hetzel.
Joe hates outdoors like it's well known he films all that in
front of a green screen. Lesser Spotted Ulster.
He hates it. Lester spotted Ulster every.
I love it. It's a brilliant, brilliant,
brilliant show and how can you not like, love him as a guy?
But there is always a character on it who you can tell.
Hung about the crew and Joe for too long.
Yeah, they were trying. They're like they're.
Like you've seen it. Yeah, yeah.
Oh geez, I'm sure you'll be tunnelling to this bridge.
No, thank you. The producers from home,
actually. Oh, really?
She's, yeah, she's been a producer.
Do you like to take over? We should look at the.
I would know fuck all about farming, that's the problem.
I would know what a field looks like.
Yeah. But what to do with the field?
But then, surely Joel's run out of places.
Like you'd think at this stage, like.
I want him to do an inner city 1.
Well, yeah. Well, then it's not lesser
spotted then in that sense. But you can still.
Yeah, you could do that unless you went to like the skips at
Davis, be a lesser spotted Ulster.
Yeah, in that sense. But I don't.
Know Joe wouldn't know Joe was not going to last long in the in
the week trousers and can't find his back, you know.
Imagine the raid and that boy does Joe.
I'm telling you, I know he's probably married and all the
rest, but he again we farmers wives would have him ravaged.
No, they just want to bring him in for a week, no.
Come upstairs and I'll show you a lesson spotter, A lesser
spotted Ulster, Lesser spotted ulcer.
Take a walk on the wild side. I love those ads, but with Lou
Reed in the wild side, Joe's just fucking bounder and round
the bog. And around talking to farmers
about salage all actors to a tune, everyone in it to a tune
talked about a transgender person making his way to New
York. Any local conspiracy theories
you've heard about like. The.
Government about like, and this is just maybe something you've
heard, not something you're purporting to be.
There's kind of a glaringly obvious one being from OMA, but
we're not going to that. No, I don't know.
Not too much. We do you think you'd feel one
about yourself if if it was fun? Yeah, I would like people to
think that I've started a cult in the middle of Gordon Glens.
Like there's a meeting point where we go and we just eat
cheeseburgers. I think you get a few sign ups.
I think we would make a fucking. There's no mission statement,
you just meet up and eat cheeseburgers.
Well, you'd have to make it, obviously, because it's like a
cult, and then wipe the grease off each other.
But I'm saying is there will be. There will be activities.
Yeah. You know, you have to make an
interactive. You couldn't do orienteering,
you know, in the middle of the fucking gorgeous lands.
No, you can just drop them in with a map and go where you go.
Yeah. You've got to give them
something to do. Yeah.
And I think I can start. Remember, like Manson had his
family. I could have that family where I
wouldn't do anything, but I've convinced them wants to do it.
Yeah, that's what I like. Yeah, you're knocking your hands
dirty. Well, the cheeseburger you're.
Getting well you see that's not dirty there's.
A weird conspiracy theory about me that I support different
Irish league teams right? So weird people will be like
comment on if anywhere I'm not talking about football and
someone will go he supports the Glens but he don't want anyone
to know but he sure he supports Cliffenville.
It's bizarre. And who is your local team?
Tell you often I I Here's the thing.
Here's why people think because I don't have one.
Right, you're a Liverpool fan. Man United.
Oh, is it because when I grew up I was playing football on
Saturday so I never would go and see, right.
Plus I didn't get in the Irish League till about, I don't know,
10-12 years ago. But people, it's one of those
ones where like you have to have a team, you know, people are
like, you have to meet, yeah, pick 1.
So now I just pick like very niche team, like warm point
time. I want everyone I want.
I'm going to drive that. It could have been an area, but
it could have been a normal town, but they're gone here.
That that's sad. Yeah, that was a sad loss.
They played European football. Yeah, they played fucking.
They played Chelsea, Liverpool and United after the bomb and
then closed out. Yeah, but I stated the ground
still there. No.
So it's a park now? I thought it was all over Groom
though. I have always and it's all
completely like a park, dog park or something.
What what do you want to get up to comedy wise in like the next
in the next year or so? You got your eyes on anything
sexy. No, not really.
I still, obviously, I'll still keep.
I like the idea of being a club comic.
Yeah. The problem is the clubs are
limited. You know they're growing and
they're getting more, but to get out and about you sort of have
to do it like a small tour or. Something there is far less
calm. I think you're you're right.
Anger far less. How many clubs you won't do?
There's lots of venues, but actual comedy clubs.
Yeah, like I'd probably consider like I'm a club comic that like
I'll take any spot in any comedy club usually that I can get.
Yeah, but if you're, you know, no disrespect, but if you're
doing 2 nights in the SSC Arena, you're not really a club comic
anymore. Like, I don't want to.
I don't want to. That's a big fucking club.
But I'm but like the night before, like the week before.
Yeah, I was. I was in Strand Cinema.
I like there was a gig, some gig.
And on the day I was like, here could I jump like?
But that's you because you like to be among the peasants they
all time to bring you to in order to get grounded.
Yeah, that's just, that's more of a training thing and
motivational thing that yeah, but don't add up like these
plebs, you know? Nothing to beats club a good.
Club, a good club. That's because the point of a
club is you're getting the variation.
So like, you may like a stack, but the one after, you know, and
then you'll find hidden gems and you'll find somebody you've
never seen before. Plus that's usually what
happened with dailies. Like dailies was like 10 or 11
years ago. So you guys were all just
starting. Yeah, yeah.
So like yourself and Colin and Mickey and then Paddy as well.
Paddy was an one of my favourite for three years that loved them.
And that was, you know, just coming down and people were
like, fuck, this is great. So it was a weird thing for us
to have that not as to be the same case, but you were in you
were there at the birth of what's now become a falling
fledged fucking circuit. The scene.
Yeah, I'm sorry. Maybe it's wrong to say circuit.
We don't have a circuit and that's a problem.
Marfa, Selma, they used to have two circuits.
They just have two like actual like.
Oh, you could go. Around you look around.
So I think Jackie Hamilton ran one and somebody else ran
another one. And then you would, you would,
you would basically run venue, join the North and once you
finish one circuit, you do the next.
Oh, so it's like, yeah, Wednesday you go here.
Thursday you're here, Friday here.
The the lack of weekend comedy kills me.
It's a weird one, but I like it too because I I have a day job,
so I like the weekend to be weekend, Yeah, so I don't mind
putting in the extra graft and doing a night gig during the
week whenever, but the weekend's the weekend.
But it's a weird thing for Belfast not to have a study.
Should have a weekend coming. Yeah.
What's the most fucked up thing you've seen on when you're on
stage or like at a gig? Have you dealt with the utter
madness before? Yeah, well, last week at the
fucking libraries. That crazy woman.
That that Dutch woman. Who?
Tackle like, not even hackling, she kept just wanting to join
the show she wanted to. Join part of it.
And it's like, see, just by being there, you're, you're an
intent, literally an integral part of it anyway.
Yeah, that was, that was just a I think.
You dealt with that very, very well.
Well, yeah, as. Well, as you could have.
Could have, could have just kept fucking interrupting.
I was just so glad, because talk about a wee bit of fucking
xenophobia before the thing starts, I said.
The Butler has a question from me with Italy and I went right.
So as the thing went on, somebody may have been yourself,
asked her where are you from? And she said Holland I.
Didn't speak to. Her at all, you speak to her.
Somebody asked her where you're from and she said Holland and I
looked at Butler. I said thought, she said.
I locked the Kidley. No, I think Butler said same
thing. Right.
He wouldn't leave him be a geography guy at all.
At all. So I was glad that it was
Holland and she was Dutch, because then I knew obviously
Amsterdam being my Mecca. That.
I had a lot to slagger about. But any other madness?
Not really. I mean, they're going to shows,
going to gigs where there's four people.
I call that madness. Yeah, I'm being.
And then being forced by a producer or a promoter to go on
ahead with the show. I think you're very good at
stopping madness, if that makes sense.
Yeah, I think you set a great tone.
Or even if you're on stage, like headline at libraries, you were
very good at dealing with that, I thought.
Mikey said it was warmth. Yeah.
Because you could have been really accomplished to her.
Yes, but you had to try because it's a fine line.
You've got a woman by herself, by the way.
Yeah. Had no friends with her.
Totally by herself and a strange study and at a gig where the
whole room were like, oh for fuck's sake, would you fuck up
now? But nobody wanted to say it.
Yeah, it's. And then you're.
But you're also borderline going.
I don't want this club to come out if I tear into this lone
fucking foreigner. Something by yourself?
Yeah, in the middle audience. So you had to try and keep it.
But the more you spoke. Britain first, Britain you were.
Champion. Yeah, I was confident at all
times. Like I was like, Brexit was
right, You know what I mean? I kept I kept reminder at all.
You introduce yourself as young for US opera.
Do you think he knew? He knew when he was doing that.
He had to know. Working in British politics like
he knew. Unless something was written to
him spelled out phonetically, do you think there was an RA hitch
like the RA? You know, if he had seen RA by
itself, no matter what context, there's no way he would not
know. Nah, but that gave us 4 hours.
You never fucking. Know but I'm sure his like
cameos went through the roof. That's the thing.
You see how much money they make after it, That's the thing,
yeah. Again, he's fueling the do.
You think there was? Do you think then there was a
lot of loyalists going? Well, we'll get him to say what
we want. No, no, no, you don't have to.
He already does what you need to do.
But he made a fortune. Boys, going here.
Say, say, say. Up the UVA for me.
Yeah. Up the die.
Spell. Just spell them in a different.
Way just up at that. You did up at that, yeah.
I love you Nigel, Do your Father's Day message for me.
I. Love you dad.
I, Paddy Mcgackie we talked about earlier, does a joke about
this thing I had seen totally separately years before.
He does a very funny pun on the joke.
Like UDA man, UDA man, UDA man. I remember being a Majorca when
I was like 12 and seeing a guy in a red T-shirt with white
letters that said you space the man and he obviously like was
foreign. And it was like, you demand and
I remember as a child and like, that's 10 out of 10.
I love that. I love that.
I remember years ago taking my daughter to the Lagan Valley
swimming place and, and I suppose coming from Tyrone,
there's usually not, there's not much you would see of it, but
I'd seen these guys. Now I'm I'm going to pool.
I'm tets out right do. You see, you go in the pool with
your tets out. Yeah, I'm tets out.
There's no teachers not on the pool when I'm going to the pool,
going into the pool, sorry. I thought you looked at me and
went see when I go on the pool so.
You said Paul, you mean yeah, sorry speak you fucking when I'm
on the pool. No, I'm saying I'm just, you
know, I'll not wear AT shirt even though I should just for
the for other people spectating and I'll go in and I see these
guys and like these almost like wet suit vests in the pool.
What's the? Register.
Exact my thought. I'm going to run the lazy river
behind them going. I'm watching you.
Yeah, because you're up to something.
Yeah. And then we get after it's over,
going to the showers. You realise why?
Because he had kill all tags right on the back of Taboo.
Because he brought us. I don't know.
And I was like, oh, that's what the vest was for.
To stop a fucking. Riot, you have a few.
Drinks. You're away.
You see a tattoo partner. What are you going to do?
What was he gonna get I. Was like fuck I never thought
about that. How many tattoos are there in
this country that would start a riot if they were produced in
any? Public space.
Oh my God. So yeah, that was my first
letter. That's.
A fuck I thought about that. Jacob was boys warning.
And when he was getting that done, you take your daughters,
you're going to get a wet suit. The worst thing is there was a
count worse than him because he wasn't wearing a vest and his
tattoo in the back said property of Christ and I've seen him and
I was like well you're actually I want him.
Give me the kill all tags boy. I'm more offended by the
property of Christ. I used to always think fuck
wouldn't be great if there was a back story to it and he actually
used to be in Maghaberry and like his he was pimped out to a
big lad called Chris. Tattoo factors had to come in,
tattoo fixtures had to come in. So how do I go put a tea on
there? You.
Speaking of tea, I've enjoyed greatly having a tea with you.
Yes, it's been a long time. I need to pee so bad.
And we're talking about swimmers.
I was like. Oh, fucking that water like
flowing and stuff like that. Yeah, you don't want you some
waterfalls, all that sort of stuff because you don't want to.
Fucking I don't want the scrubs. Katie, I appreciate you coming
on. Thank you very much.
Dailies Comedy Club make a trip to it.
Yeah, can't get us as next month actually, yes, there's only a
few tickets left. So if you get us, yeah, on the
4th of March. There we go, Connor, thank you
very much. Takes the live podcast in the
description. See you next time.